I much prefer conversational style interviews. I also like having them tell me about shit and then getting into the weeds of what they've been through.

I've been through so many stupid quizzing type interviews. I remember one where they wanted to ask about covariance and contravariance and I roughly stated I learned about it when writing my own compiler and it's about types and how one can follow the typing direction of typing, for let's say parameter/return values and the other can go the other way but I forget which is which typically. The guy was like, "guess which one is which?" I said, "why? it'd just be a guess, I thought I demonstrated that I'm at least familiar with the concepts", he said, "I can't mark down you got this question is right unless you get the right answer" ... I said, "let's skip it then".

Another one was where he asked me if I knew "WPF" which is a Microsoft framework to write desktop apps. I said, "it's not on my CV, and I've only used it at home a few times but you can ask me questions if you'd like", he then said with a smirk on his face, "if you want to answer the WPF portion, and you get it wrong then you look bad, but if you get it right then you look good, so what do you want to do?", I said, "I think this is up to you as an interviewer -- I've told you where I stand"

There was a lot of that ... like based on THEIR questions -- I don't know shit ... but they're not quizzing my experience at all.